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Spine force
The Spine Force is a revolutionary method of functional mobilization of muscles and joints of the spine. It is a unique and patented (with diplomas) combination. Not only is a radically innovative machine for bodybuilding, but it is also excellent for improving coordination and control of the resistance. Its purpose is to combine concentration and balance, movement and posture during the development of muscular chains. The Spine Force is designed to promote a gradual work, for simple warm-up exercises up to intensive, general or specific training, even for the most experienced sportsmen.
The Spine Force guarantees the fast and effective REHABILITATION. It relieves muscular tension while strengthening and stretching the muscles from the very first session. The hand grips and the platform provide you with assessment, restoration and enhancement of the musculoskeletal system. In the upper part of the body the exercise is done using isometric contractions of the muscles, while the platform rumbles on 360 degrees to the left and the right. At the same time, the patient tries to balance his body while focusing on the control panel for both the left and right movement that comes from the platform. Patients who use the Spine Force for 20-40 minutes feel like they have been working out for 1-2 hours at the gym.
The Spine Force is a rejuvenation machine for seniors as it improves mobility, balance, limb coordination, wellness and posture while reducing the appearance of the year with back pain, fatigue and inflexibility. In short it improves our quality of life.
Improved performance – Sports
The overall fitness and physical empowerment optimizes the performance of athletes and sports enthusiasts.
It exercises and gives strength and agility to weak muscles after an injury. More specifically, powerful controlled movements of the Spine Force depending on the problem reduces fatigue and the risk of injury and improves recovery time.
The Spine Force helps to prevent osteoporosis, it promotes muscle growth and it stimulates the body while creating a firm silhouette with a correct physical posture.
Is it useful?
-The Spine Force is the only machine in the world that can enhance the 180 muscles of the spine simultaneously.
-It assesses the muscular strength of the spine and the patient's balance.
-It heals easily and quickly the symptoms of chronic back pain.
– Postoperative rehabilitation, Osfyikis-thoracic – cervical spine.
-Rehabilitation of sports injuries.
-Improves back pain and strengthening muscles.
-Improves scoliosis due to imbalance of the muscles (functional scoliosis)
-Prevents future injuries to the spine.
-Provides excellent mobilization and rehabilitation in patients with cerebral palsy. Strengthens the muscle groups, the balance of the patient and his ability to walk.


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Automating Installation with Kickstart
Both Fedora and Red Hat Linux save all the parameters you used during installation in the /root/anaconda-ks.cfg Kickstart configuration file. You can use this file to create an automated installation of a duplicate system, which can be useful if you have a large number of servers to install.
This section shows you how to automate network installations using the Kickstart application and NFS. You can use HTTP and FTP, but I omitted them to keep the discussion brief.
How to Create New Kickstart Configuration Files
You can create a customized Kickstart configuration file by using the ksconfig command from a GUI console. It brings up a menu from which you can select all your installation options. When finished, you save the configuration with the filename of your choice.
You may want to then edit the configuration file, adding # signs to comment out certain parameters that may change from system to system, including the system's name and IP address. During the Kickstart process you will be prompted for these unspecified values.
Adding post Installation Commands
You may want to run some commands on the newly created Linux installation after Kickstart is complete. Some processes that Fedora activates by default may not be suitable for your server and may need to be disabled. You can disable them by placing a %post section at the end of the Kickstart file with all the post installation commands you wish to run. For example:
%post chkconfig isdn off chkconfig pcmcia off chkconfig portmap off chkconfig apmd off chkconfig nfslock off chkconfig nfs off
A Note about Using anaconda-ks.cfg
It is possible to use the /root/anaconda-ks.cfg file as a template for future installations. Fedora comments out the partitioning information in this file, so you have to uncomment it and then make your partitioning modifications or be prepared to be prompted for your portioning information.
How to Run a Kickstart Installation
It is best to place your Kickstart files in a subdirectory under the /data/network-install directory. The upcoming examples assume the subdirectory is called /data/network-install/kickstart. Remember that you may want to remove the # comments from the partition section of the file. If not, you will be prompted for this information.
When using a NFS server, verify that the first two lines of the file look like this:
install nfs --server=22.214.171.124 --dir=/data/network-install/ISO
If they don't you may be prompted for NFS ISO file location information.
When using a Web server, verify that the first two lines of the file look like this:
install url --url http://192.168.1.100/network-install/
If they don't, you may be prompted for RPM base file location information.
Booting With Your Kickstart Files
There are two ways to specify the name of the Kickstart file to use. The first is to enter it manually from the boot: prompt when you insert the boot CD. The second is to have your DHCP server automatically tell the Kickstart client the name of the Kickstart file when the server assigns the IP address.
Manually Specifying the Kickstart Filename
After you boot from your boot CD-ROM, you need to issue a command at the boot: prompt to continue with the installation. The ks.cfg file is the Kickstart configuration file you want to use, but the command syntax changes depending on whether you choose NFS or HTTP. For the NFS method, use:
boot: linux ks=nfs:192.168.1.100:/kickstart/ks.cfg
For the HTTP method, use:
boot: linux ks=http://192.168.1.100/network-install/kickstart/ks.cfg
Configuring the Filename Automatically
Whenever you have to create lots of cloned Linux servers, you may want to configure your DHCP server to specify the single Kickstart configuration file you wish to use. Here is how it's done:
Kickstart first searches for a configuration file named ks.cfg on the boot CD. It then automatically attempts to get a DHCP IP address and see if the DHCP server will specify a configuration file.
Kickstart next uses NFS to get both the configuration file and the installation ISOs. The rest should be automatic.

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The Hounslow Business Awards, now in their fourth year, recognises and celebrates the many dynamic an innovative businesses in Hounslow. Whether your organisation is large or small there is a category for you to highlight your business achievements.
Why Enter? – The benefits of entering the Hounslow Business Awards extend far beyond picking up one of our prestigious trophies at the Awards ceremony in the autumn:
• Reflect on your success and consider the future direction of your business
• Showcase your business and its achievements
• Generate positive PR – winners and finalists will benefit from a high level of local media coverage courtesy of our media partners
• Differentiate your business by being a potential Hounslow Business Awards winner
• Celebrate your achievements at our gala awards dinner and awards ceremony on October 13th at Hilton London Syon Park
How to Enter? – Entering is straight forward:
1. Simply visit our website (www.hounslowawards.com) and follow the instructions to register your business
2. Download and complete the entry form
3. Return your entry by 5pm on Friday 17th June 2016
2016 Award Categories
• Employer of the Year
• The Green Award
• Independent Retailer of the Year
• Best International Business of the Year
• Logistics Business of the Year
• Innovator of the Year
• Best Business for Marketing & Social Media
• Best SME Business
• Best Business for Customer Service
• Entrepreneur of the Year
• Best Charity or Social Enterprise
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Total Calm & Focus Paste
Total Calm & Focus is a highly effective all natural formula to calm your nervous anxious horse while enhancing focus. This supplement will help to lose the anxious, nervous behavior while maintaining a bright alert horse with forward ears and the focused energy for the task at hand. As the name implies...Calm and Focused!
Ramisol is the cutting edge ingredient in Total Calm & Focus that has offered proven results in the previous 2 Olympic Games, World Equestrian Games, and World and National Championships across all breed groups and disciplines over the last 6 years. Ramisol suppresses Cortisol. The stress hormone Cortisol is released in response to high intensity exercise and stimulus.
Stress and high levels of Cortisol are related to fatigue, changes in mood, aggressive behavior and depression. Ramisol helps minimize the increase in normal Cortisol levels induced by rigorous training. Magnesium, and a balanced blend of B vitamins are added, which have shown to be very beneficial for nervous, hyper horses.
• Contains no herbs, sedatives, or banned substances
• Helps promote mental alertness while maintaining calmness
• Proven to work
• May be used for showing, sales prep, racing, hauling, and training


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I would say almost half of the customers that come in for a smog inspection each day bring incomplete renewal notices in because they failed to read their renewal notice and went to DMV, AAA, or sent their check in without getting a smog inspection first.
I would say it's not hard to read, but 99% of the people on the road ignore stop signs every day, so apparently, it's harder than I think.
On a related note, I find it very funny when people come in freaking out that they need a smog because their registration is either due the next day or the same day. And this is no one's fault but the owner because DMV will send you your notice about 90 days before it's due; about the same amount of time a smog certificate is valid for. Weird how that lines up...
One time a lady came in at 4:00 and her registration was due that day and the car passed smog, but the registration had a hold on it because she had ignored a safety or emissions recall GM had sent her. She also ignored the part on the renewal notice that said she needed to get it done (it even says the recall number). She was freaking out and I had to hold in my laughter because one of my cars had a hold placed on it but I took care of it the day I got my renewal notice (I had ignored the recall up to that point because it was TDI re-programming at it was for cold climate cars so there was no reason for me to go into the worst dealer in the world and have them fuck my car up again and then lie about it and commit fraud).
And even when I don't have a hold placed on my cars for recalls I get the smog done either the day I get the notice (since I didn't think about it before), or I smog it as soon as I'm in the 90-day window. I do this despite the fact that I work on my own cars and can take care of anything that would cause it fail. It's always better safe than sorry.
But for those that have life get in the way and you live in California I have a tip for you: PAY YOUR REGISTRATION! Do NOT wait for the smog if you have fallen behind and it is due. You do not have to have completed the smog for the DMV to accept your fees and avoid late fees, they only require it to issue your tags and send your new registration. And while your tags may show they're expired it will show up in the system and you won't be cited (in addition to the late fees) by an officer if pulled over.


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Data released by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency show that the Obama administration deported less than 0.2% of the estimated 11.7 million illegal aliens in the country in 2012 for immigration violations. Most people who were deported were stopped at the border. People who were deported from the interior of the country had usually been arrested for committing other crimes.
New York City's Department of Investigation discovered that death doesn't disqualify you from voting in NYC. Undercover DOI agents made it to voting booths 61 times, and were turned away only twice.
The Obama administration shipped the last three Uighurs at Club Gitmo to Slovakia. China blamed Uighurs for an attack in Xinjiang on Monday.
Month: December 2013
Links for 12-30-2013
The number two official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Michelle Snyder, will retire. Snyder was responsible for the deployment of the federal ObamaCare exchange web site.
Someone hacked a Gmail account belonging to State Department whistleblower Richard Higbie and deleted all of his emails, including emails detailing alleged wrongdoing at the agency. The deleted emails included those he exchanged with Congressional investigators and his lawyer.
There was another reminder today in North Dakota that it's safer to transport oil from the Bakken formation using pipelines (like the perpetually delayed Keystone XL pipeline) than it is to use rail cars. A BNSF train carrying oil collided with a derailed train near Casselton, sparking explosions that resulted in at least ten rail cars burning. BNSF is Warren Buffett's railroad.
Another suicide bomb attack in Volgograd, Russia killed at least 14 people. The target this time was a trolleybus taking people to work during rush hour.
The Japanese mob is recruiting homeless people to work Fukushima cleanup jobs. These people work for subcontractors who charge them for room and board, which can leave them owing their employers money.
Links for 12-29-2013
Reason published an article on people who refuse to cooperate with the Border Patrol's internal immigration checkpoints.
The defense appropriations bill that President Obama just signed includes a provision that makes it difficult for Russia to build Glonass base stations in the U.S. Unless the secretary of defense and the director of national intelligence certify to Congress that Russia can't use the stations to spy on the U.S. or improve the accuracy of Russian weapons, the stations can't be built.
A Spiegel article describes the exploits of the NSA's Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), which specializes in developing technical approaches to penetrating computers and networks. One of their simplier methods for compromising equipment is to redirect shipments of new equipment destined for one of their targets to their facility, where they install software backdoors before (re-)shipping the equipment to its original destination. Spiegel also read the catalog of products and services TAO provides to its internal customers, which includes prices.
A female suicide bomber blew up the main railway station in Volgograd, Russia, killing up to 18 people.
The Telegraph offers more background information on the corruption scandal in Turkey, which involves buying oil and gas from Iran using gold. Using gold avoids sanctions that prohibit using U.S. dollars or Euros to trade with Iran. What Turkey has been doing is probably legal, but Erdogan's efforts to impede the investigation may not be.
Links for 12-28-2013
EPA regulations have driven electricity prices to record levels in spite of the boom in shale oil and natural gas production.
Someone staged a military-style attack against a power substation southwest of San Jose, California back in April, severing fiber optic cables and shooting transformers. It took weeks to return service to normal. The attack emphasized the fact that the physical security of our power distribution network is lacking, not just its cyber security. (via Lucianne)
Links for 12-27-2013
"Moderate" Republican Larry Pressler is running for U.S. Senate from South Dakota as an independent. Pressler is so moderate, he endorsed Obama — twice. A Libertarian candidate named Kurt Evans was polling well (for a libertarian) at 11%, but withdrew from the race, which (somewhat) reduces the risk that Democrats will retain Tim Johnson's seat thanks to fragmentation on the Right.
A vacant storefront in South Dakota is all the rage among "dynasty trusts" — it's a dodge to avoid estate taxes.
A U.S. District Court judge in New York ruled that the NSA's practice of hoovering up everyone's phone call metadata is constitutional.
The U.S. Border Patrol arrested a 12 year old illegal immigrant who was hauling 80 pounds of marijuana. How long will it be before he's recruited by a SEC football team?
Okinawa's governor approved a deal for a new U.S. base but opponents are threatening lawsuits and protests.
Three members of Turkey's parliament who belong to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) resigned from the party; they had been sent to the party's disciplinary committee after they publicly criticized the government over the developing corruption investigation.
Links for 12-26-2013
R.J. Moeller wrote an interesting account of the environment Pajama Boy (a.k.a. Ethan Krupp) experienced at New Trier Township High School: "[W]e also had the first LGBTQ club in the state of Illinois. We also heard more than our fair share of 'social justice' preached via educators and after school clubs. Our teachers and administrators were model examples of the proud (and vocal) brand of 'progressive' one encounters in the public education systems around the country. And when these privileged kids went off to schools like Denison, Brown or Stanford, their journey to cultural, political and economic liberalism was a short one."
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce plans to spend at least $50 million to defeat the Tea Party.
The U.S. is accelerating the delivery of weapons to Iraq, including 75 Hellfire missiles delivered last week.
The corruption investigation in Turkey is closing in on Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's son, who is on the management board of a charitable foundation that's a target.
Links for 12-25-2013
Three car bombs in Iraq that targeted Christians killed at least 37 people.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is close to a deal for a new U.S. air base in Okinawa. The U.S. and Japan agreed to close the existing base at Futenma in 1996, but opposition to a new base on Okinawa has stalled its replacement.
The socialist president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, endorsed child labor because it builds a "social conscience." Official Bolivian statistics indicate there are 850,000 child laborers in the country.


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We look forward to welcoming everyone tomorrow!
For entry on Tuesday, please note that class lists will be posted on chart paper in the following areas of the school:
Kindergarten - near the Kindergarten Doors (green doors)
Grade 1, 2, 3 - inside the gym
Grade 4, 5, 6 - on outside gym wall
Some grades 4, 5 and 6 classes are in the portables and those lists will be posted on respective portables.
See you all Tuesday morning!


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Also experimenting with doing this with a depth camera to be able select a focus distance and how much it blurs outward from there. It kinda works in real-time, but might be better as a still camera of sorts where you just save the rgb and depth and process the images for a few minutes.
Drawing Machines
I made a few drawing experiments that take a source image and build it up over time be either squiggling pens around or drawing triangles at various sizes. I really wanted to be able to take a low res image and turn it into a super high res image with lots of geometric detail. This seems to have done the trick. Everything was created in Processing and the images can either be exported as high res png files or as in these videos, lower res png files every frame then pieced together into a video clip.
Also experimenting with doing this with a depth camera to be able select a focus distance and how much it blurs outward from there. It kinda works in real-time, but might be better as a still camera of sorts where you just save the rgb and depth and process the images for a few minutes.
RGB Ringlight
GAFFTA was having a boat party to celebrate the new Bay Lights installation. As part of the fun everyone was to wear light up clothing. I thought it would be fun to create some light up effects for my camera and use the hotshoe to trigger the lights, this is the result. First a few shots from the event!
I wanted a manual light adjustment that would be natural that didn't require me to move my hand off the usual positions of the camera and lens. So I decided to go with a softpot which happened to have a sticky back so it fit perfectly on my 24-70mm 2.8L lens.
Next up I wanted to be able to change the color from red, green, blue and any combination of them. I went for a simple route of just having 3 switches that cut off power to each channel, those were mounted on the perfboard.
After I had the basic idea fleshed out and parts needed, I started like many projects do, on a breadboard with a lot of jumper wires and alligator clips to test that things will work the way I expect them to. Ignore the digital pots, I was going to use them but figured I didn't want to add a microcontroller, plus these only handled 5v max.
Next up was testing that I could actually tap into the hotshoe. Luckily I happen to have an old busted hotshoe that I was able to gut and replace the existing electronics with my own board. One nice part about using the hotshoe was that whenever the camera shutter was open it would complete the connection, and switch the lights to full power.
Pretty shitty solder job, but it was late and it worked so that's all that mattered.
First test with it hooked up to the hotshoe and 9v battery.
Here is a shot of the soft pot on that I stuck to the bottom of the lens.
Next up I needed a way to hold the battery and diffuse the light. I own a Makerbot Replicator 2 so it was a snap and after a few revisions I had a diffuser that snapped onto the lens hood and a battery holder that snapped onto the hotshoe. You can see the switches and the battery holder in this next shot.
Here is a view of the diffuser
And another view from the front.
A shot of the very simple case to holder the battery and cover the guts.
This was a very last minute project but it turned out well for being made in 24 hours. If I were to redo this project I would definitely use more powerful LEDs, I'd have a the switches be external or controlled in another way. I'd love love love to hook into the white balance of the camera, so that it could switch the white balance settings based on the light, but that would require some serious hacking. Another thing I would like to do is build a better reflector so that more of the light goes out in front instead of spilling out the back. Also having a lower light lens would be nice.
I think if you were to hook this up to a 5dmkIII it would shoot some beautiful video. It seemed to work best when there were white walls nearby to bounce off.
One more really important thing is, boats on rough water + looking through a camera + drinking = seasick for sure. Haha oh well, still had a blast.
Intel's Perceptual Computing Lab is hiring! Thought I'd post two jobs that don't have "official" Intel descriptions yet, and one that does. The jobs are all located at Intel's HQ in Santa Clara, CA. If you have any questions, feel free to send me an email. email@example.com
Creative Coder/Hardware Hacker
Intel's Perceptual Computing Department is hiring a Creative Coder/Hardware Hacker. We work with experimental depth cameras, voice input, biometric monitoring, face detection, hand tracking, eye tracking and other new ways of interacting with a computing devices. We need someone to create mashups of various cutting edge technologies into working prototypes that show off unique ways of interacting with technology.
Often it starts with someone saying, "wouldn't it be cool if..." and when the right pieces of the puzzle come along, we attempt to build it. You will need to be comfortable ripping apart the latest ultrabooks, tablets, sensors, cameras, etc and carefully reassembling things into working prototype. The goal is to prototype a bunch of ideas relatively cheaply and quickly to determine what is worth investing more time on. You will be expected to fail, if your prototypes aren't pushing the limits of what is possible, don't bother building it.
Ideally we would like someone who has enough general skills to create entire prototype solutions from concept to mechanical design, electronic assembly and write software to test said prototype and quickly prove if an idea is worth putting more time and people into. These prototypes could eventually turn into real products 1-3 years out. When a project is picked up, a team will be assigned to develop it further to product level.
You will work with researchers, creative coders, industrial designers, ux designers and others in a team to produce prototypes of real products that will reshape way people will interact with technology in the future.
Comfortable with mechanical engineering, Solidworks or similar software
Experience with 3d printing and laser cutting
Ability to reverse engineer and hack existing tech
Experience with Arduino, Openframeworks, Cinder, VVVV, Unity3d, etc
C, C++, C#, Java, Javascript and/or Python experience
Comfortable with soldering, rewiring, basic electrical engineering
OpenCV/PCL experience, Kinect, IR/RGB cameras
Able to write apps for Win 8, osX, Android, iOS
Bonus skills:
Optical engineering
Low level hardware programming
Please email firstname.lastname@example.com with a link to your portfolio of work and any experience you think is relevant and maybe a resume.
UI Designer
Intel's Perceptual Computing Department is hiring a UI designer. We work with experimental depth cameras, voice input, biometric monitoring, face detection, hand tracking, eye tracking and other new ways of interacting with a computing devices, trouble is figuring out what feels intuitive and how to combine various new technologies into a seamless beautiful experience...this is where you fit in.
So if you've ever found yourself watching a sci-fi movie with some futuristic interface and thought, "pssh, I could have done better", now is your chance to prove it. It's not enough that things look beautiful, they must feel intuitive, natural and any number of other buzzwords that tech bloggers like to throw around.
You will work with researchers, creative coders, industrial designers and others in a team to produce real products that will reshape way people will interact with technology in the future.
Ability to mock up interfaces quickly
Come up with novel ways of combining inputs
2d and 3d technical but artistic illustrations, animations and exportable assets
Strong Illustrator, Photoshop and motion graphics software background
Worked with developers in the past to create finished products
Bonus skills:
Worked with emerging technologies
Ability to script/code, C++, C#, Javascript, Java, Python
Familiar with Unity3D, Processing, Openframeworks, Cinder, VVVV, etc
Please email firstname.lastname@example.com with link to a reel or portfolio of your work and any experience you think is relevant and maybe a resume.
Senior Interactive Software Engineer - 704329
The Perceptual Computing Group of Intel Corporation is looking to fill the position of Senior Interactive Software Engineer. In this role, the innovative candidate will contribute toward the definition and technical development of 3D articulated skeletal tracking middleware as well as research and prototype novel interactive usages based on user motion, gesture, and other emerging forms of user input. Working in an agile and pioneering environment, the candidate must be a highly motivated self-starter yet also able to work effectively with a team to bring any core technology contributions, samples, and demos up to a professional level of quality.
BSc in Computing Science (Masters or PhD preferred) along with a 4+ years of experience in 3D video game technology development, professional physical simulation, or similar discipline. The candidate should possess a track record of creating original work to solve real-world problems in the form of publications or noteworthy contributions to shipped products.
Candidate must have intimate knowledge and experience in the following areas:
- High proficiency in C++
- Solid Mathematics ability relevant for 3D interaction, simulation, and rendering
- 3D computational geometry
- Rigid Body Dynamic simulation (experience with powered rag doll techniques a plus)
- Animation and skinning techniques
- Working with motion capture data (experience with Kinect or similar device a plus)
- DirectX or OpenGL and shader development
- Understanding of digital content creation development pipeline (some art skills a plus)
- Full development lifecycle of a 3D interactive software product
Link to apply
First off...I know very little about Photonics, I just heard that the Photonics West Expo was in SF and free. I went to see what exciting new tech from other industries might be useful to me and the random research and development that I do.
There were so many really crazy toys...and by toys I mean stupid expensive scientific gear. Everything from high speed cameras, high powered lasers, micro actuators and liquid lenses.
Let's start with a few of the high speed cameras. There were a number of camera companies and a handful of sensor manufacturers. CMOSIS caught my eye with their CMV2000 sensor, fairly large sensor almost an inch across but does 2048x1088 at 340fps in 10 bit mode. Makes the latest GoPro camera look slow for sure...but these aren't exactly in the same category. The thing that caught my eye was 8 separate ROIs that could be used to track 8 cropped regions at higher framerates, hot stuff for computer vision nerds.
CMOSIS also has their 70 megapixel beast sensor with a resolution of 10,000x7096 at 3fps, cause you know, you might want that. It also does moving windowing...so while stupid expensive and massively overkilling the game, imagine sampling the full image, finding what you want to track, windowing that ROI and only streaming the smaller window at a higher framerate. For some reason I imagine the government is all over this.
Next up Selectable Bandwidth Tunable Optical Filters from MeadowLark!!! Wtf is that you ask? I'll tell you. Typically if you have an optical bandpass filter it's just a physical old fashion thing you put in front of an image sensor, it has a specific bandwidth that is allow in and everything else is blocked...NOW, Imagine you wanted to electronically switch a bandpass filter between the range of 420nm-730nm and also choose how much of any given bandwidth of light you want to let it. DONE! Perhaps this is old news to old laser jocks, but to me this is hot shit. While this particular model didn't go up to IR, they said it was possible and how dope would it be to have a switchable IR bandpass filter.
In my opinion we are going to have some serious crosstalk in the infrared spectrum once more devices start using IR to supplement dark situations of as ways of passing information invisibly through the air. An electronically controlled IR bandpass filter would be super useful in the future. Currently it's stupid expensive, but nice to know someone is working on it. There is also the tri-color version which is apparently cheaper, shown above.
The Liquid Crystal Iris from LCTec. Basically using single pixel lcd displays to act as an iris or shutter. Sure this tech is everywhere...but I'm never really seen the companies behind the tech. They have a variety of sizes useful for projectors, small embedded cameras and even 3d displays like their depth cube. I'll probably be playing with some of these in the near future.
Everyone has probably already heard of this company, Nanoscribe. Ever wanted to 3d print on the nanoscale? Well if you have some seriously deep pockets then now you can. Really cool technology, chatted with them for a while. One thing I would personally like to do is mimic structures found in nature and improve upon their design to make some really exotic materials. No idea if that is actually feasible...which btw reminds me of this video that has been going around recently.
Apparently a handful of companies make these high speed 2 axis laser beam deflection units. I spent a while talking to someone from Raylase about their Miniscan. While talking to the sales guy, he said a camera could also be hooked up to see create a high speed robotic camera of sorts...which is obviously more interesting to me. Anyway these things are stupid fast and pretty expensive, but could be pretty useful.
Varioptic had some pretty slick liquid lenses of all different sizes. Most impressive was probably their demo showing how you can tilt the image through the liquid lens to correct for camera movement. Of course fast switching of focus, zoom, position, tilt, etc is pretty damn useful. I believe these could be super awesome for see through HMDs where the need to adjust to the user's current depth plane would have to be fast, small and lightweight. Did I mention they have dev kits!!! Also if for some crazy reason you don't know what electrowetting and all this liquid lens stuff is about, check out their demo/video page.
Incom has a polymer-fused fiber optic technology that could be used for some really awesome physical computing / multi-touchscreen combo goodness. Basically they are fancy light pipes, instead of just shining the light through, the actual image comes through distortion free on the surface of the object, which can go from a cylindrical base to a rectangular top, or a small base to a large magnified top. Another nice feature they demoed was that if the sides of the polymer are not blocked it allows additional light to come through so when placed on a non-lit source like a business card, it appears bright as a display with no power used. I imagine using these polymers to direct light to the surface of optically tracked physical buttons, knobs and all sorts of things to give computers a physical dimension that you just can't get right now. Also OUTSIDE! Use these suckers to gather light for a powerless backlight. Of course the glass versions are slightly sharper image quality and brightness wise, but they come at the cost of...well, cost and weight. Check out the video I shot of a few of their polymers on a display.
Did I mention these fancy fiber optics are currently used in casinos for display buttons? Way to go someone in Vegas.
Micro actuators and various other stupid small mechanical devices. These things aren't just small, they are really really accurate. At first I was so excited to see these, but then I realized just how many people make them. So I guess they are pretty common. Price-wise they seemed pretty expensive and you'd probably only buy them if you're R&D department has deep pockets and/or a very specific use. Anyway, still very cool, check out the video. I believe the one in the video are from Technohands, super super sorry if they aren't. =\
So with my newly rediscovered love for optics I want to start designing some of course, but what to use? Apex for Solidworks is a optical engineering add-in made by Breault. Since I've been getting into Solidworks a lot lately, I'll probably give this a go and post how it works. From what I can tell it's very well integrated and seems pretty straight forward. They also have a stand alone application, but I'll just stick to the plugin for now.
I'm sure there is a lot that I'm missing, but just off the top of my head this is what stood out. Perhaps I'll post more fun random photos from the expo such as this Nikon that was cut in half...hopefully by a laser.
...or this super massive laser.
The Great Gesture Myths
1.) Manipulating imaginary objects in the air is natural
Manipulating real objects with our hands is arguably the most natural thing we do, so many think we'll just pretend there is an object in our hands and our brains will make that connection that just because we see on a 2d display the manipulation is taking place it will feel good, it doesn't. Sorry to break it to you, but it's not natural, there is a disconnect that is hard to get over, our brains expect a physical object and know there isn't one. We need stereo ques and physical touch to make that full connection.
2.) Mid air gestures will replace the mouse
I'm all for new tech, it's my primary focus, but the mouse seriously doesn't get enough credit for it's accuracy and usefulness. It's a physical device, it has weight, it's accurate and when you let go of it, it's stays in the exact same place you left it. This is what we have come to expect of our computers, our highly accurate pointer stays where we left it, it has the ability to move one pixel at a time, to grab the edges of windows with a selectable area of 10 pixels or less.
Mid air gestures don't "stay" where you left them, each time you put your hand up to be tracked, it will start at that new location, could we change this? Sure, we can add "clutching" or the ability to "pick up" the cursor when it's not tracked or when it goes beyond a plane, does it feel natural? mmm, not really. Imagine you have an invisible wall in front of you and when you break through it with your fingertip the cursor can moves, so to pick up the mouse you simply have to move your hand closer to you to avoid breaking through this invisible wall. Pretend for a minute that you are doing this to select things in the air, breaking the plane in different places.
Hows you hand feel? Your arm? A little strained, but not too bad...ok now try for 5 minutes, then 10. Unless you are a boxer or something of that nature, eventually your finger, wrist or arm are going to get tired, the back and forth motion is arced based on the pivot point, but our invisible plane is a plane...so breaking into and out of it forces us move linearly like a robot, which we just don't naturally do. Create an arc and keep it static and you'll get all sorts of weird tracking errors. So ideally perhaps the best movement would be an arc that is dynamically adjusting based on the base position of your elbow, or wrist, which means further tracking is required than just fingertips.
Another thing I hear a lot about is how selecting and navigating in 3d is going to be so much easier, however when you select something in 3d...like in 3dsmax, maya or any professional 3d application you don't actually move the cursor in 3d space, you move a 2d cursor and the program converts your cursor's screen position to world space by casting a ray out from below the cursor into the 3d world to see what 3d object it hits first. Most mice have a trackwheel on it, if want to we can easily map the scrollwheel to move a 3d mouse cursor along the Z axis with the scroll wheel and leave X and Y input for the typical mouse movements. Why don't 3d artist use their scroll wheels to move things in 3d space, perhaps because it's difficult to know how FAR in Z you are going without additional cues from stereo and head tracking parallax effects.
3.) Mid air gestures will replace touchscreens
When you use a touchscreen you get an immediate physical feedback that you are touching something, it's 1 to 1, you see it, you touch it, it makes sense even to my 1 year old daughter. When you do mid air gestures, you have to imagine you are over something, hopefully some visual indicator helps you know where you are on screen as a hover until you break some plane and actually engage the "touch". Mid air touch sounds like a good idea, until you try it. Turns out we have a hard time getting used to that imaginary plane of touch. This leads to a lot of unwanted touches or misplaced touches. Try resting your elbow on the table, poke the air in front of you, seems easy right? Ok now try to look at what you are doing from the side. Notice your pokes aren't straight, they go in at angles and not even consistent angles. We are human, we are not robots, sadly it's kinda hard to train yourself to move like a robot. Try moving your finger left and right, this time look from a top view. Notice you move in an arc based on the elbow as a pivot point, so out air touchscreen needs to be arced to reflect how we actually move...ie: tracking fingertips may not be enough.
4.) Gestures will replace keyboards
Keyboard are excellent input devices, I can type faster than I can write with a pen or pencil. Speech on the other hand if recognized correctly is much faster than typing but dictating to your computer can be kind of awkward if others are around, but I'm getting off topic. Physical buttons with their clicky sounds and slight resistance that keeps them up feels good. I've been using keyboards for at least 25 years now, I can type without looking at the keyboard, that's awesome! Sometimes I have to look down and hit the F5 key or some unusual character, but it's fast, it takes less than a second for me to see it and hit it. Try typing for a minute as if where you needed your fingers to be about 3cm or so above the keys.
Do you miss that clicky sound and physical interaction? I've noticed I've gotten much faster at typing on my iPhone because I've trained myself to know the physical distances between the edge of my phone and where the keys should be and with autocorrection, I'm actually pretty fast now, but I'm still relying on one very very important factor, that physical interaction between my finger and the screen, I feel that I've touched the screen. I seriously doubt gesture will replace the keyboard any time soon without some sort of physical interaction with something.
5.) Sub millimeter accuracy means something
Our fingers shake around 1mm when resting and depending on if you've had your daily coffee probably more. Perhaps we should all dope like surgens and snipers so that we can use our computers eh? So does it really matter if we have sub millimeter accuracy? In my opinion not really, you just need to filter the data anyway because nobody wants to be reminder how twitchy they are. One thing I found amusing though, rest your elbow on a table, and your hand and your pointer finger too. Your finger is pretty damn stable when it's resting on the surface of something, now lift your finger, notice the shake, then lift your wrist, then your elbow...if you could measure this really accurately, you'd find that the less we are resting on things the more variation in movement. If you've ever looked a raw motion capture data, you'll find humans don't make smooth movements, they make jerky random movements with the acception of highly trainer athletes who have incredible muscle memory they've taken years to perfect. So in the long run it really doesn't matter if we have sub millimeter accuracy, it's nice to have as something you can claim, but for tracking humans, not really needed. Now if you were tracking robots, awesome, let the race to high speed sub micrometer accuracy begin...probably just switch lenses and we're there, but whatever. Another big part of this is, at what distance do you have submillimeter accuracy and with what lens? Getting sub-pixel accuracy isn't anything new, just add a few more inputs like the size, shape or intensity values to a tracked object and compute the center of these various inputs. Now a 120degree FOV lens at 320x240 resolution that can detect the tip of a chopstick at 20 feet without special lighting with sub millimeter accuracy would be impressive. The larger the object and the more you know about the shape of that object the better the tracking. Chopsticks work great because you have all that extra data to help your calculation, don't just track the end, track all the way up, but what about nothing that isn't pointy? like a stuffed animal or a particular point on a piece of cloth, with no ridged body to track your tracking algorithm needs to be way more complicated to handle many possibilities...anyway I'm way off topic.
Edit: made a video to show an accuracy comparison between a touchscreen and mid air gestures.
Alright asshole, thanks for crushing my Gesture world, so what is gesture useful for then?
Now that's the multi-million dollar question. Games and art are currently my top two answers. Completely redesigning interfaces to take advantage of this kind of tracking is something I've been up to for few years now. Lots of things have been tried, some feel alright, maybe I'm just doing it wrong, haha. I also think that when paired with stereo/3d displays and high speed head tracking, it starts to get a little close to being useful. Also musical applications or where timing is super key, but tracked movements don't need to by quite that precise along one axis or another, like say adjusting filters or physically dropping the beat with the movement of your hand...flashy stuff that's good for a show, not so much for producing music though.
It could also be useful for detecting WHERE on a real object you are touching or for training robots how to manipulate object or...idk, some physical therapy usages.
Gestures are the one technology that may be so far ahead of it's time that it isn't useful yet. Gesture NEEDS other tech to make it useful. Haptic feedback without gloves, head mounted displays with the ability to track, high speed, high resolution, low cost cameras. Autostereoscopic displays that don't suck. Another thing is interference from other gesture cameras, do they work in daylight, time of flight cameras interfere with each other as do structured light, IMHO unstructured light stereo cameras will probably be the most reliable in all conditions, once faster stereo matching happens.
Another thing I have to mention is that Leap Motion, Kinect, OpenNI, Primesense, SoftKinetic, PMD, Omek, Oblong and anyone else in this crazy gesture game...keep working, it's very hard to bring sci-fi movie expectations to life, have it feel good and be consumer friendly. In our labs we can make magic, when it comes to real-life environments, low cost, low power, small scale embeddable goodness...it's f'king difficult and even if you get it, is it something people will want to use over some other existing technology for more than 10 minutes?
Are or will gestures be useful sure...I think so, are they right now? In my honest opinion, not yet.
As with any new electronics, I decided to tear apart the Creative Depth Camera that we (Intel) has been shipping out to early developers.
Of course I've seen many versions of this come through the lab, but just for the heck of it I thought I'd crack it open and see if there was anything worth looking into further.
First off for those who don't know, the Creative Depth Cam is a time of flight camera so it doesn't work like the Kinect but it does give you a depth map similar to the Kinect. You can find more information about how time of flight cameras work on wikipedia. Also it is a short range camera!!!
Moving on...the Creative Cam is much smaller than the kinect and unlike the Kinect there is an existing mounting 1/4" screw hold on the bottom of the camera which is super helpful for mounting to things like a tripod, gorilla pod or perhaps a robot. Another big advantage is it only has one usb cable and no power cable so it's easier to use remotely. As well as the folding base that attaches to laptops and displays easily of course. So case design is very inviting to people who might want to use it for non-standard things or mount it in funny places.
There are no security screws or anything difficult to take apart, you will however need a small needle nose to get the hex screws off.
It's easy to get the back part of the case off by unscrewing the back and the front plastic cover slides off to reveal screws. Of course make sure the device isn't plugged in, there be lasers in these devices so don't burn your eyes out.
You can now see that there are two lasers! sweet! and their diffusers are secured in with two screws and a metal cover, Obviously it's very important that you don't look into the lasers while the diffuser is off, it will damage your eyes.
Another thing I noticed is that the IR image has a weird grain to it which can clearly be seen in the IR image in the bottom right. Also in the image below it's even more noticeable on the box.
I had a suspicion that it was the IR filter that was causing this grain so...I tried replacing it with a piece of paper. Probably not IR blocking enough to be considered "Safe" by any company's standards, but check out the difference.
Another thing I wanted to try is closer range sensing. By stacking a few layers of paper I was able to reduce the output of the laser enough to get the IR image to not be blown out at close range and track a little better. I needed to scale the ranges back to see any noticeably good depth map and sorry It's not shown very well in this image, but with a little tweaking it can be done. Is it eye safe? not sure. I wore IR blocking glasses whiel doign all this so...
Finally, what does the camera look like with no IR filter at all? Well I'm glad you asked. See the image below. Super bright horizontal laser, but hey look at those depth values way out there. Long range likely super dangerous goodness. Now there is a second laser emitter which could probably be turned on and we could see this distance without removing any filters or major hardware changes.
Anyway. Not sure if any of this information is useful to anyone...but hey, I had fun as always when taking things apart. Also if you want one of these cameras you can order through this site: http://click.intel.com/intelsdk/Creative_Interactive_Gesture_Camera_Developer_Kit-P2061.aspx
Audio Reactive Photo Booth
I made a little audio reactive photo booth for my daughter's birthday...or rather for the adults attending my daughter's 1st birthday. Any loud noise triggered the application to save a photo.
I used the Canon SDK, OpenFrameworks and ofxCanon. You can download ofxCanon from https://github.com/roxlu/ofxCanon Thanks Roxlu for making ofxCanon!!!
You can download the Canon SDK from their site after requesting it. It took less than 24 hours for Canon to email me the link. Roxlu did a good job documenting how to connect the Canon SDK into an OF project. Everything is pretty straight forward. I just merged then Audio Input example from OF with the ofxCanon example and the image saver example that comes with OF.
I had trouble with getting ofxCanon to properly save the images from the camera every time, so instead of actually triggering the camera to take a photo I simply saved the live view to a png. Since the live view is already using the camera's settings, it's a pretty incredible image quality and the framerate aint half bad either.
I find having good props is an important ingredient in creating a good photo booth. Also having good lighting and enclosing it so that people feel their actions are private is pretty key. One thing that I failed to do was have the display as close to the camera's lens as possible, I found I got a lot of photos of people looking at the display, so that was kinda lame-o.
The audio based thing was nice...sometimes. I think having a button or timer is also good. I found different people tried making sounds differently. I figured people would all yell or say something loud, but everyone did something different from hitting walls to clapping, snapping, whistling and stomping feet. Perhaps it would be a good idea to have various noise making props as well if I were to do this again. Perhaps another thing that would be great would be to hook it up to a flash or feedback that it's taking the photo.
One of the fun things was that resulted from this unusual way of taking photos was the accidental photos that came out of it. People laughing, opening the door, nearby noises and other things that tripped the camera, all of which captured lots of fun moments.
Anyway it was fun and people seemed to enjoy it. Perhaps a version 2.0 will have to happen at an upcoming event.
Here is the source:https://github.com/Interhacktive/AudioPhotoBooth
Here are a few photos from the booth.
Olympus MEG 4.0 Head Mounted Display
Tested out the Olympus MEG 4.0 head mounted display today.
Super tiny, very very light, doesn't obstruct your view too much. Not sure about the super tiny screen in the bottom right corner of your vision. Feels a little weird, makes you want to close your other eye. Plus the screen res was only 320x240...However, it seems like enough to read a tweet or see a photo of who is calling you or map directions, musical artist, text msg type of stuff.
It connects via bluetooth and should be around $100-200. It also clips onto glasses of course. No camera or AR stuff. It's kinda like looking at a little 4" display if it were placed at an arms length away from you. This is definitely the smallest, lightest and least intrusive HMD I've ever tried.
...also still waiting for my Occulus to arrive.
My New Replicator 2
It's been a few weeks since I got my Makerbot Replicator 2.
So far I've been both impressed and disappointed.
There are three default settings in the Makerware, Low (fastest), Medium and High (slowest) quality. They each seem to have their ups and downs.
You can also choose to have a raft and/or supports, a raft seems to be to help larger objects from curling upwards off the surface and the supports are for overhanging object, kind of like a scaffolding on a new building. The supports are supposed to just tear away...but some are easier to remove than others.
The low res seems pretty reliable, but occasionally freaks out depending on if the surface is level or off by a bit. The raft and supports seem to come off just fine without much issue.
The medium seems to be even more sensitive to the surface not being level, but the quality seems a bit better, hard to tell though, definitely slows things down a bit though from the low res. I'd say a little less than double the speed of the low res. Prints fine with or without the supports and the raft options. Infill and everything else seems to work well too.
I can't believe the high res accuracy and some of the super tiny things you can print, however I found the high res supports are impossible to get off the rest of the model, so high res with no supports is ok. Also I noticed depending on the size of the overhangs it just won't print the overhangs. The lines practically disappear in high res mode, it's pretty incredible, but man oh man is it slow and I have yet to print anything that large in this mode. Another really important thing I found is that when I print with an infill of the default 10%, it freaks out and anything close to the infill turns out all messy and not useful...However when I print with an infill of 100%, it prints beautifully.
Some other options under the advanced settings are infill, shells, layer height, temperature and speed. There are two slicers, one for the low and medium quality, one for the high quality. Infill is the amount the inner areas are filled. Shells are how many layers of wall there are for each exterior facing polygon. Layer height goes down to 0.1 so that's pretty sweet, I haven't tried anything beyond the defaults. I haven't tried changing the speed or temp at all either, why mess with it if it seems to work? Also since I use it for work I just try to use the settings that work.
Overall I'd say it's pretty awesome to finally be able to take a digital object and turn it into a real thing you can hold in your hand. Is it perfect, no not at all. Is it reliable, yeah, once the surface is level, it seems to be good for a number of prints. Does it's detail look good, yeah in high res, it's dope, just be prepared to wait a long time. Do I want more options, of course. Does it suck that it's not open source, hmm well since I'm not trying to hack it and I'm just using it as a tool, I'm ok with it. Does it feel like a solid product, yes, but with any early tech, it has it's issues. I think it's definitely a huge improvement on the other Makerbots.
This was a high quality print with supports and a raft. Unfortunately it was damn near impossible to get the supports away from the actual model.
Some pictures of what it looks like when the back screw is off by even a tiny bit. A level surface is super super important and not always easy. I found that by printing a large raft and tweaking it while it prints I can find the sweet spot.
This is what it looks like when the nozzle is clogged or the spool isn't moving smoothly. To fix this I just chose the Change Filament option then selected load and push it through til a consistent STRAIGHT stream came through.
High res print, no support, no raft, default settings. The one on the left had the default infill of 10%, the one on the right had an infill of 100%.
Mostly I use the printer to print cases or holders for custom electronics that fit into hacked apart electronics for cleaner hacks that feel super solid and fit like a glove...plus other kinds of cases, adapters and other misc prototyping stuff. The image on the right shows just how paper thin the prints can be. With a 0.1mm accuracy it's easy to print a thin washer like piece that attaches to a larger model to hold things in place.
I also found making things in two parts is really useful. So instead of bothering to print supports, just printing a separate piece that snaps into another you can get overhangs without the wasted plastic.
Sometimes I make little characters in 3dsmax, the workflow is super simple, have a solid mesh with proper normals, add the STL Check modifier to any objects you want to print, make sure they are the proper scale in real units then select the object(s) and export as an STL file, load it into the Makerware, place it on the platform and print. I think the platform was a little off because he came out a little funky.
Same model as the low quality guy on the left, but a smaller high res version on the right, no supports or raft on the high res. You can see he drooped a bit under his chin and on his arms. I imagine if there were no overhangs it would be pretty nice.
Another picture of the same two little guys. Yes the polygonal look of them in on purpose.
I made also made a bunch of attachments that fit into a track lighting and get their power from it. Shown in the video above is the arduino holder, the servo controller and a pan/tilt head. I have since printed a holder for an atom based computer and attachment for a Xtion depth camera that fits into the pan/tilt head.
Here is a closeup of the Arduino holder for the track lighting. It was printed on low quality, the top piece has supports the bottom piece did not.
I also made some earrings for my girlfriend and now she is even making stuff in 3dsmax and printing them. She has made some candle holders that fit together, a bunch of snowflakes and we made a fancy cookie cutter for my sister.
The Capacitive Tree
Capacitive Tree - early test from Chris Rojas on Vimeo.
The Capacitive Tree uses capacitive sensing to detect a hand above the surface of the table. As sensors we used conductive paint from Bare Paint along with an Arduino connected to a Processing sketch to animate some circles growing in the trees. They will eventually be lighting up LEDs and sending serial signals to a computer for further visualizations.
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Esther Ibanga pastors a church in Jos Nigeria. She remembers the day in 2010, when Islamic militants set fire to her mother's home. "It really hurt me because it was like my whole childhood just went in the flames."
That same year, less than five miles away in Dogo Nahawa, more than five hundred women and children were slaughtered by Islamic militants.
"The Christian women leaders in the city began to come to my house. They said to me 'Pastor Esther, what should we do? This cannot go on.'"
Esther says they dried their tears and organized a protest. Thousands of women marched and petitioned the government to end the corruption and violence. Shortly after, women from a nearby Muslim village responded with a march of their own, for women and children killed in an earlier attack by Christian militants.
"So I decided to reach out to the Muslim women and I said 'Listen, you're not my enemy and I'm not your enemy." She called Kadijah Hawaja, a Muslim community leader to help her come up with a solution, but Esther had to give her own anger and bitterness over to God. "And I told the Lord, No. I'm not going to forgive because I was hurting so much. I just did not want to have anything to do with any Muslim."
Then she heard Kadijah's story. "Her personal house was set on fire by Christian youths. And when she said that, I just stopped right there in my tracks because she understood what I felt and I understood what she felt. And we just realized we needed to come together and help these kids. And so that healed me and that brought me to the point of actual forgiveness."
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Slavery & Justice
Professor Matthew Reilly is an anthropological archaeologist specializing in studies of race and class in the Caribbean, specifically on the island of Barbados. He received his Ph.D. in 2014 from Syracuse University. His methodological and theoretical training is grounded in historical archaeological approaches to the Atlantic World. His forthcoming book, Archaeology below the Cliff: Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society, analyzes the place of marginalized "poor whites" on the plantation landscape. This research informs his broader interests in how race was/is operationalized in the Atlantic World and how processes of racialization continue to plague societies across the globe. Prof. Reilly is currently jointly developing a community-based, collaborative project in Barbados incorporating educational initiatives and heritage management strategies to think about the future of plantation spaces and what they mean for island communities. Prof. Reilly is delighted to be part of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice and looks forward to forging interdisciplinary partnerships with those similarly interested in better understanding and transforming how race, class, colonialism, slavery, capitalism, and history affect our society.
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Visiting Scholar
Cape Verdean American filmmaker/historian and Fox Point native Dr. Claire Andrade-Watkins is Professor of Africana and Postcolonial Media Studies, Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies, a Brown University Swearer Center for Public Service Fellow since 2008, and a Visiting Scholar in the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) 2007-2012. She is the president/founder of SPIA Media Productions, Inc, and the director of The Fox Point Cape Verdean Project, a community based research initiative that documents, preserves, and chronicles the history, culture, and institutions of the displaced Cape Verdean community in the Fox Point section of Providence, Rhode Island.
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Visiting Fellow
After entering Howard University in 1961, Charlie Cobb left one year later to work as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the Mississippi Delta. While working in that state he originated the proposal for Freedom Schools that became such an important part of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project. A founding member of the National Association of Black Journalists, Cobb began his journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for WHUR Radio in Washington, DC. In 1976 he joined the staff of National Public Radio as a foreign affairs reporter. He was an on-air writer/correspondent for PBS's FRONTLINE from 1980–84. From 1985-1997 Cobb was a member of the Editorial Staff of National Geographic magazine – the first black writer to become one of that magazine's staff writers. He recently published This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed. During his fellowship at Brown he will be conducting oral histories with Civil Rights veterans.
Visiting Graduate Fellow
Lorenzo Ravano has a MA in History from the University of Bologna, Italy. He did his MA dissertation in History of political thought on Frantz Fanon's Political Thought and his influence on African American and Post-Colonial Studies. He is currently a PhD student in Political Thought and Institutions at the Department of History, Cultures and Civilizations, University of Bologna.


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Better lighting is one of the easiest ways to save energy. But before you can start saving you have to spend, and it isn't always easy to convince everyone in the decision chain that a big investment in new technology with the promise of longer-term savings is a good idea.
So various organisations – including lighting manufacturers and publicly funded bodies – are offering buyers ways to spread the upfront cost, paying gradually as they save on their bills.
Sustainable investment
Although the Carbon Trust is no longer able to offer interest-free loans after government funding was withdrawn, it now runs an Energy Efficiency Financing scheme with Siemens Financial Services to offer loans and equipment leases on favourable terms for energy-efficiency projects. The idea is to invest in projects that save as much or more than the cost of repayments, meaning no capital outlay for the user. The scheme finances projects ranging from £1,000 to millions of pounds.
'Lighting is the most common category of investment that we advise clients on,' says Myles McCarthy of the Carbon Trust's implementation services division. 'It's number one across pretty much all sectors in terms of good investment opportunities – that includes hospitality, offices, retail and manufacturing.'
'By structuring the finance in the right way we can make sure the benefits exceed or match the repayments on the investment. That's a really compelling sell – although you're investing in the equipment you don't need to spend more. Energy prices going up makes it even more compelling.'
Finance, McCarthy says, is one of the key barriers that prevents businesses from investing. Another is simply awareness of the options available to them. and confidence about what technology to invest in.
Access to finance is a 'key enabler' for businesses to embark on energy-efficiency projects such as lighting upgrades, McCarthy says. 'There is competition for financial resources in businesses, and linking energy-savings to cost of their projects and delivering a way to finance that helps projects to be approved and taken forward in business.'
Independent assessments
The Carbon Trust also offers independent energy-saving assessments of projects, allowing customers to invest with confidence. 'It's ensuring they're making the right decision and not locking in inefficiency,' says McCarthy. But with new lighting, he says, there's a compelling business case in 'almost all' the proposals they see.
And lighting companies are offering financing options independently. UK manufacturer Dali Lighting (which bought the products of Lighthouse Electronics after it went into administration in 2010) is one of the companies seeking to entice customers with a 'buy now, pay later' option. Dali is offering to install halogen replacement LED lighting for free, allowing customers to pay over 12 or 18 months as they save money on their bills.
Empowering efficiency
For customers in the public sector, interest-free government-funded loans are available from Salix Finance for energy-efficiency projects that can be shown to pay for themselves in five years or less. Lighting projects have been Salix's largest area of investment this year, and its loans have allowed numerous public sector organisations to move to more efficient lighting schemes.
Salix provides interest-free loans and match funding to remove the upfront capital barrier faced when investing in energy-efficient technology. It has funded more than 2,500 lighting projects worth more than £50 million, and claims to have saved the taxpayer more than £188 million and prevented the emission of a million tonnes of carbon dioxide.
Salix CEO Alastair Keir says: 'Our aim is to empower public sector organisations across the UK – from schools and universities to local councils and NHS trusts – to take the lead in tackling the various issues around climate change.'
'Our clients generally forecast savings of 45 to 60 per cent for high-efficiency electronic ballast lighting upgrades and 60 to 90 per cent for LED installations,' says Keir.
'The incorporation of discrete controls such as passive infrared detectors and daylight dimming can increase these savings by a further 10 to 40 per cent. As well as the savings in energy use, clients reap huge financial benefits from reduced maintenance and longer lifespan.'


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Banyule's Urban Light Box Program is a series of rotating art exhibitions in lane ways located in Heidelberg West.
The Light Boxes promote high quality illuminate art in the public realm, showcase the talents and creative ideas of young, new and established artists, and contribute to the revitalisation and renewal of these neighbourhood shopping precincts.
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Nhalinggu Bagung Artists – 2017 marks 50 years since the referendum giving Aboriginal people the right to vote. To commemorate this anniversary and acknowledge Banyule's Indigenous community, Council is currently curating the Light Box Galleries with work created by local artists at Barrbunin Beek Aboriginal Gathering Place.
Until the end of the year the Light Boxes will be illuminated with a rotating selection of Indigenous art blending traditional techniques with contemporary perspectives. Artists currently featured:
Oxford Arcade: Madison Connors, Shelley Jackson and Wesley Fuller
Cambridge Arcade: Wingara Ellis and Natashia Corrigan
Midway Lane: Bunji Spillard, Liana Liddle, Rebekah Liddle, Wingara Ellis and Jedah-Lee Wickey
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In my book, Say It Out Loud, I share my healing journey from a childhood of sexual abuse. In the final chapter, The Ongoing Journey, I talk about dealing with the bumps in the road that come along after you've reached a place where you are healed and living a more joyful life. When you are
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To Err is Human but Not Always Devine
"To err is human." We all make mistakes. When we hear of a mistake someone else made we're usually gracious to others, consoling even. But when we own the mistake? That's another whole story. "To err is human" becomes "How the bleep did I do that!" If erring is a part of human nature why then am I completely turned
Goldilocks Didn't Settle. Why Would You?
A recent set of events has left me thinking about Goldilocks and the Three Bears. You know the fairy tale–Papa Bear's porridge was too hot, Mama Bear's was too cold but Baby Bear's porridge was just right! In search of a church for the winter months, Tim and I found three in our area. The first, an
Bumps in the Road
Today I'm going to jump to the end of my book, Say It Out Loud, and share some thoughts on what I call bumps in the road. PART IV: Life What happens once the scars have been revealed and healed? Life. The process of healing from any trauma is long and difficult, but eventually the
Be Not Afraid
It has been a curious month for me. Every so often the phrase be not afraid streams through my mind. When it does I feel a settling of the fibers in my body much like when you open a vacuum sealed bag of coffee and the grounds settle into a softer state. I don't know if
Don't Ever Give Up
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In chapter 12 of my book I write about the Ongoing Journey. Life is an ongoing journey for all of us but it does take on special characteristics for survivors of sexual abuse. In my September post I wrote about "old stuff" creeping back in and some strategies for dealing with that. Today I want to talk about


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Mad Cat And More Homegrown Comedy Week
Saturday, 04/06/2016 – 04/09/2016 08:00 pm – 09:00 pm
The Gleason Room Backstage At The Fillmore Miami Beach
1700 Washington Avenue,
Miami Beach, Florida 33139
Cost: $10-30
Mad Cat Theatre Company and The Gleason Room backstage at the Fillmore, supported by The City of Miami Beach, present four different nights of stand-up comedy and original works by Miami's own home-grown companies.
Wednesday April 6th: THE HAVE-NOTS: From their underdog beginnings in dive bars to being named "Best Comedy Venue†by Miami New Times, The Have-Nots continue their comedic rise by keeping their fans at the heart of everything they do. With comedy show collaborations already under their belt with Viacom, MTV, South Beach Comedy Festival & Live Nation, The Have-Nots are undisputedly Miami's next big thing for live stand-up comedy! www.HaveNotsComedy.com
Thursday April 7th: THE PROJECT [theatre] presents SOUND BITE: SOUTH BEACH by Stephen Kaiser and Gladys Ramirez: Every night has a story. SOUND BITE: SOUTH BEACH is your night to slip on a pair of headphones and immerse yourself in the story of the hottest club on South Beach. Listen up while you buy drinks at the bar, let loose on the dance floor, and get down with sounds provided by Silent Revolution Events. From the pre-game til the morning after walk of shame, The Project [theatre] is taking you behind the velvet rope and through an experience you may not remember but you'll never forget. www.project-theatre.com.
Friday April 8th: VILLAIN THEATER presents THE MIAMI NOISE MACHINE: The Miami Noise Machine takes a suggestion from the audience and turns it into a full musical on the spot! Each character, song and dance number is entirely made up with a live accompanist on keys. Villain is Miami's first improv theater dedicated to the art of Chicago-style long form improvisation, brought to you by Artistic Director Jeff Quintana and co-founder Peter Mir. www.villaintheater.com.
Saturday April 9th: MAD CAT THEATRE COMPANY presents WHY NOT? WITH RICHARD NIXON: by Jessica Farr, Theo Reyna, and Paul Tei. Richard Nixon hosts a late night talk show where he interviews three current presidential candidates about what the presidency means to them. What. The f—k. Is going on. Mad Cat Theatre Company producers of original work and new takes on old classics, are now in their 16th season. Now located in Miami Shores as resident theatre company of Miami Theater Center. www.madcattheatre.org
April 6th at 8:00 pm: $10, The Have-Nots Night of Stand-up Comedy
April 7th at 8:00 pm: $30, The Project [theatre] presents SOUND BITE: SOUTH BEACH
April 8th at 10:00 pm: $10, Villain Theater presents THE MIAMI NOISE MACHINE
April 9th at 8 pm: $30, Mad Cat Theatre presents WHY NOT? WITH RICHARD NIXON
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1. 2015 Jeep Cherokee: 4,500 pounds
There are two powertrain options in the Jeep Cherokee, but the one you'd want for towing is the optional 271-horsepower, 3.2-liter V-6. With a nine-speed automatic and the required tow package, it can haul up to 4,500 pounds, which is enough to cart around a boat or camper with ease.
2. 2015 Audi Q5: 4,400 pounds
Some of the better compact SUVs for towing are luxury models, given their typically more powerful engines. The Audi Q5 is one such beast. Based on the same platform as the A4 sedan, it can tow 4,400 pounds even with its small 220-hp, turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine. Of course, being an Audi, it'll cost you considerably more than a Cherokee.
3. 2015 Chevrolet Equinox/2015 GMC Terrain: 3,500 pounds
The SUV that came in second in our recent comparison challenge, despite its aging looks and interior, is quite capable when it comes to towing. Opt for the powerful 301-hp, 3.6-liter V-6 engine and dealer-installed trailer tow package that includes electronic trailer sway control and hill start assist, and you can haul around 3,500 pounds with confidence.
4. 2015 Ford Escape: 3,500 pounds
Some compact SUVs don't have an optional V-6 engine, but that hasn't limited their abilities. The latest Ford Escape can be equipped with a 240-hp, turbocharged 2.0-liter EcoBoost engine and a Class II Trailer Tow Package that lets it haul 3,500 pounds.
5. 2015 Mercedes-Benz GLK250/350: 3,500 pounds
The Mercedes-Benz GLK may be overshadowed lately by the new GLA-Class, but it has plenty of merits, including an optional diesel engine and the ability to tow up to 3,500 pounds. You can do that with either the GLK250 Bluetec diesel or the conventional GLK350 and its 302-hp, 3.5-liter V-6; both have the same towing capacity.
6. 2015 Mitsubishi Outlander: 3,500 pounds
It may not be one of the more popular compact SUVs on the market, but it is one of the more capable ones for towing. The Outlander (not the Outlander Sport, the smaller sibling which is not tow-rated) can haul 3,500 pounds, but you'll need a top-trim GT V-6 model to do it. That truck's 3.0-liter V-6 and six-speed automatic transmission combine with its all-wheel-drive system to offer a reasonable towing package, with optional seven-passenger seating to boot.
7. 2015 Lincoln MKC: 3,000 pounds
Another luxury truck makes the list, but this one is tricky. The MKC is rated to tow 3,000 pounds when equipped with an optional Class II Trailer Tow Package, but only with the less powerful 240-hp, turbocharged 2.0-liter EcoBoost engine. If you opt for the 285-hp, turbocharged 2.3-liter four-cylinder engine, you're limited to a trailer weight of just 2,000 pounds. Go figure.
8. 2015 Volkswagen Tiguan: 2,200 pounds
Volkswagen's compact SUV is a popular towing vehicle in Europe, hauling "caravans" (small campers) across the countryside with its stout turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine making 200 hp. It's rated to 2,200 pounds in the U.S., but with the diesel engine available in Europe, it can tow almost 3,200 pounds there.
9. 2015 Kia Sportage: 2,000 pounds
Many compact SUVs such as the Toyota RAV4, Honda CR-V and Subaru Forester can tow 1,000-1,500 pounds, but the Kia Sportage is able to drag 2,000 pounds behind it with its 260-hp, turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine or its less powerful 182-hp, 2.4-liter engine and a proper tow package.
10. 2015 Mazda CX-5: 2,000 pounds
With the Mazda CX-5, you get the ability to haul 2,000 pounds with a fairly small, efficient 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine that makes just 184 hp. When you're not towing, you'll get to enjoy the Mazda's sporty character and recently upgraded interior.
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Events this Week
News events
Homecoming parade, 6:30 p.m., followed by bonfire on Wetmore Avenue. Parade forms at 6 p.m. on Chestnut Street and proceeds north on Fraley Street to Wetmore Avenue.
Kane School Board workshop, 6:30 p.m., administration building.
Wildcat Park Fall Festival, Wildcat Park, Ludlow.
Sports events
Boys' Golf at District 9 AA Tournament, Brookville, 9:30 am
Girls' Golf vs Smethport, home, 4 pm
MS Girls' Basketball at Brookville, 4 pm
Boys' Soccer vs Smethport, home, 4 pm
JV Football at Brockway, 6 pm
Volleyball at Ridgway, 6 pm
Boys' Golf at Ridgway, 3:30 pm
Girls' Golf at Bradford, 4 pm
Cross Country at DuBois, vs DuBois, Punxsutawney, 4 pm
Girls' Soccer at Ridgway, 4 pm
Volleyball at Bradford, 6 pm
Homecoming Parade, 6:30 pm
Boys' Golf at Cameron County, 4 pm
Girls' Golf at Bolivar Invitational, 4 pm
MS Girls' Basketball at DuBois Central Catholic, 4 pm
Girls' Soccer at Brockway, 5 pm
Boys' Soccer at Brockway, 7 pm
Volleyball vs DuBois Central Catholic, home, 6 pm
MS Girls' Basketball vs Elk County Catholic, home, 4 pm
Varsity Football vs Ridgway, home, 7 pm
Boys' Golf at District 9 AA Tournament, Brookville, TBA
Cross Country at Schenley Park Invitational, TBA
Boys' Soccer vs Ridgway, home, 11 am


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Anita Blake: Circus Of Damned: Volume 1: The Charmer (Premier Edition Hardcover)
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Defense News reports: TEL AVIV – In Israel, where combat-capable unmanned systems constitute a significant share of exports and form the backbone of counter-terror operations, a new Obama administration's push for international guidelines governing strike drones is being viewed with skepticism, if not outright alarm.
As much as the Israeli government wants to support its closest ally, officials and experts say the nascent US initiative is diplomatically dubious, practically unenforceable and potentially crippling to a critical sector of Israel's defense industrial base.
Beyond all that, a former national security advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it could prove operationally self-defeating in the war against terror.
"If the modern Western world wants to continue to fight terrorism in future, this capability is essential," said retired Maj. Gen. Ya'akov Amidror, a former Israeli national security advisor.
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